On May 18, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote:
> [Splitting this off into a separate thread. Before careful when you > start a new thread not to reply to an existing message. Most mail > clients will link to the old thread via headers, regardless of the > subject line changing.] > > Kurt Keville wrote: >> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/05/the-orange-box-cloud-for-free-man.html > > Federico posted a few tweets on this portable cluster. A collection of > i5 CPUs mounted to the walls of a long, narrow box, covered in heat > sinks, with a common power supply and Ethernet switch inside. > > A neat concept. > > The primary application seems to be as a training tool. Canonical will > bring one to you and train you in using their cluster management tools > using it. I think the price mentioned was $10K. I'm not sure if that's > for the box, the training, or both. Do you get to keep the box, or is > just a loaner during the training period? 10k is for 3 days of training sandwiching 2 weeks of box loan. > > I'm wondering if they created custom motherboards for the nodes. We did not, they are Intel NUCs. > > The box itself is surprisingly empty inside. Just the walls and base of > the box have circuits. Seems you could get greater density by stacking > the bards, but that may not have been feasible without putting huge fans > on it. The idea is to be fanless, and to do that the i5s have to touch the walls. The box itself is a heatsink. we made a prototype where the boards were in a fifferent position, but this is also better for access (usb to the bottom, reset pins lit by blue leds on the heatsink sides. Best -F _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifredi at acm.org - GnuPG 0x4A73884C _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
